Join Peace Action of Staten Island, Military Families Speak Out, First Central Baptist Church, Unitarian Church of Staten Island, Pax Christi, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Film Fest Reloaded, Movement for a Democratic Society and other community groups and residents from neighborhoods all over Staten Island to demand an end to this war and occupation.

We are entering into the 6th year of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and have passed the tragic milestone of 4000 U.S. soldiers killed in combat. Iraqis have suffered untold deaths – one million dead according to some accounts and four million Iraqis displaced from their homes. Every day another $720 million, most of it borrowed, is spent on the war, with the tab currently running at $500 billion and the projected to eventually total $3 to $5 trillion! And for what? So that the U.S. can expand its control over oil-producing countries? All over the country, peace activists are mobilizing to demand that our troops come home now. We will gather to have our voices heard in our own community. Religious and community leaders will join us to denounce the continuation of death and destruction.